Inflammatory

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inflammatory \In*flam"ma*to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. inflammatoire.]
     1. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.
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     2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition;
        seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or


        publications. --Burke.
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     3. (Med.) Accompanied with, or tending to cause,
        preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as,
        an inflammatory disease.
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     {Inflammatory crust}. (Med.) Same as {Buffy coat}, under
        {Buffy}.
  
     {Inflammatory fever}, a variety of fever due to inflammation.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inflammatory
       adj 1: characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory
              process"; "an inflammatory response"
       2: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: {incendiary}, {incitive},
           {instigative}, {rabble-rousing}, {seditious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "inflammatory":
     agitating, agitational, agitative, breathtaking, charged,
     cliff-hanging, disquieting, distracting, disturbing, electric,
     enkindling, exciting, exhilarating, explosive, fervent, fervid,
     fiery, fomenting, frantic, frenzied, galvanic, heady,
     heart-expanding, heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling,
     impressive, incendiary, incentive, inciting, incitive, inflaming,
     inflammative, instigating, instigative, insurgent, intoxicating,
     jarring, jolting, kindling, lighting, maddening, mind-blowing,
     moving, mutinous, overcoming, overmastering, overpowering,
     overwhelming, passionate, perturbing, piquant, provocative,
     provoking, rabble-rousing, rabid, ravishing, rebellious,
     revolutionary, riotous, rousing, seditionary, seditious,
     soul-stirring, spirit-stirring, stimulating, stimulative, stirring,
     striking, suspenseful, suspensive, tantalizing, telling, thrilling,
     thrilly, traitorous, treacherous, troubling, unsettling,
     upsetting